In short the writer means Mymensing and Sylhet districts. The river Lohita is the modern Brahmaputra.

    Western antiquarians have decided that Phoenician culture and influence spread over Asia Minor and the whole of Southern Europe about 2,000 years B.C.

    It has not been ascertained when the Panis left India by sea and established the colony of Phoenicia along the coasts of Syria. From the account left by Herodotus, however, it is found that the very ancient capital of Phoenicia, the city of Tyre, was founded 2,300 years before him, i.e., 2,756 B.C. In these circumstances it may fairly be concluded that the Panis must have deserted the shores of India long before that date. From a consideration of the legend telling how Sargon I (about 3,800 B.C.) crossed the eastern sea, it will also appear that the Panis colonised themselves in Syria so long back as 5,717 years from now. And subsequently they gradually extended their sway as traders and rulers over Egypt and Asia Minor.

    It appears from the authority of Rig Veda that the Panis had the principal centre to the west of the Rasa, which flowed into the Indus through Khorasan and Afghanistan. After the Vedic Aryans had succeeded in depriving the Panis of their possessions, the latter bade goodby to this centre of their influence and were divided into two parties, sailing along the Indus and ultimately settling into the region of Sauvira, and the other marching straight into Babylonia through Khorasan. The Kalakyas had no doubt a principal centre in Sauvira (Sind) and Hiranyapura. But here even they could not live in peace; the Aryans attacked them very frequently and made their life miserable till some of them found it necessary to migrate to the Deccan and others took to the hills of Eastern India.

    It seems that the branch of these people which sailed along the Rasa and settled in Babylonia subsequently came to be known by the name of Sumerian after the place of their residence. Whether out of fear of the Vedic Aryans or for any other cause they may have studiously concealed their original racial name Pani.

    It is these Panis of the Vedic Age who have passed as Phoenicians in the western civilized world and later as